Aston Vila are unbeaten in each of their last 10 meetings with Nottingham Forest at Villa Park across all competitions (W7 D3), since a 2-0 loss in the Premier League in October 1994 under Ron Atkinson.<\/p>\n
Nottingham Forest are unbeaten in each of their three European games against fellow English opposition, keeping a clean sheet each time (W2 D1) \u2013 their only previous away match was at Anfield versus Liverpool in the 1978-79 European Cup first round, drawing 0-0.<\/p>\n
Aston Villa have won each of their last nine home games in major European competition, since a 0-0 draw with Juventus in last season\u2019s UEFA Champions League; the Villans have also scored in 31 of their last 32 matches at Villa Park in such competitions, with that goalless draw the sole exception.<\/p>\n
Nottingham Forest are looking to reach a third major European final after, the 1978-79 and 1979-80 European Cups \u2013 the Tricky Trees have only been eliminated from one of their last 13 knockout stage ties when winning the first leg, with that the 1983-84 UEFA Cup semi-final against Anderlecht.<\/p>\n
Aston Villa are aiming to reach a second major European final, after the 1981-82 European Cup; the last team to overturn a first leg deficit in a major European tie against an opponent from the same nation as them were Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid vs Barcelona in the 2015-16 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals (1-2 away 1st leg, 2-0 home 2nd leg).<\/p>\n
No team have recorded more clean sheets in the 2025-26 UEFA Europa League than both Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest (7), both keeping a joint-high three in the knockout stages; the Tricky Trees restricted the Villans to an xG of 0.8 in the first leg, their second lowest tally in a knockout stage game this term (0.5 away to Lille). \u00a0<\/p>\n
Aston Villa manager Unai Emery has only once before lost both legs of a knockout stage tie in the UEFA Cup\/Europa League, with Valencia against Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid in the 2011-12 semi-finals. In fact, that was the last two-legged tie the Spaniard was eliminated from in this competition, progressing from 22 in a row since.<\/p>\n
In the first leg of this tie, Nottingham Forest\u2019s Omari Hutchinson recorded the most dribbles (10), created the most chances (4) and had the joint-second most shots (3) \u2013 he was the first player to post each of those figures in a UEFA Europa League game since Athletic Club\u2019s Nico Williams vs Roma in last season\u2019s round of 16. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Aston Villa\u2019s Morgan Rogers has been directly involved in five goals in six home appearances in this season\u2019s UEFA Europa League (2 goals, 3 assists), while he has also scored (1) or assisted (1) in his last two outings at Villa Park against Nottingham Forest in all competitions.<\/p>\n
Nottingham Forest\u2019s Igor Jesus has been directly involved in the most away goals in this season\u2019s UEFA Europa League (5 \u2013 4 goals, 1 assist) \u2013 he has also had the most shots (34), shots on target (16) and posted the highest xG figure (6.7) in the competition overall this term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aston Vila are unbeaten in each of their last 10 meetings with Nottingham Forest at Villa Park across…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-629532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}